BOTH FAIRFIELD AND HAMILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT SAY THEY EXPECT TO OPEN ADDITIONS TO BE FILLED BY THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. SOME BIG CHANGES NOW FOR THE CINCINNATI'S INITIATIVE TO REDUCE VIOLENCE WITHIN OUR CITY. A RESTRUCTURING IS PUTTING SOME VOLUNTEERS AT ARMS LENGTH FROM OTHER GROUPS. WLWT NEWS 5 'S JOHN LONDON SHOWS YOU WHY RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND OTHERS ARE CHANGING WHOM THEY ASSOCIATE WITH. IT'S A MATTER OF TRUST, AND THERE HAS BEEN SOME EROSION OF THAT OUT HERE ON THE STREETS. ALONG WITH SOME REBRANDING, THREE MINISTERS AND 10 COMMUNITY OUTREACH ADVOCATES ARE DOWNPLAYING THEIR CONNECTION TO SERVE AND PLAYING UP THEIR TIES TO THE HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION. THERE IS NEW SIGNAGE WHERE THE CIRV WAS ONCE DISPLAYED. THE STREET-LEVEL ADVOCATES SAY THE NAME CHANGE BETTER REFLECTS WHAT THEY DO, AND THEY WANT SUSPICIOUS GANG GROUP MEMBERS TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN COPS AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH. WE ARE NOT POLICE. SO WHEN THEY SAY CIRV SWEEPS, THAT IS NOT US. HERE IS A LITERATURE THEY'RE USING TO REINFORCE WHAT THEY ARE ALL ABOUT. THEY WERE YOUNG TEENS WITH GUNS ARE READING SOMETHING ELSE INTO IT, THINKING ADVOCATES ARE RATTING THEM OUT. OUR JOB IS NOT TO GO INTO THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND POINT OUT INDIVIDUALS. OUR JOB IS TO OFFER A LIFELINE. PETERSON MINGO SAYS IF HE SEES A FELONY BEING COMMITTED, HE WILL REPORT IT. BUT ADVOCATES SAY SOME OF THE YOUTH THEY ARE TRYING TO HELP MISTAKINGLY FEEL THE TRADE. GETTING BUSTED AFTER CONFIDING IN ADVOCATES, NOT REALIZING POLICE ALREADY HAD THEM TARGETED FOR ARREST. IF YOU CANNOT COME TO US, WE CANNOT HELP YOU. AND WE DON'T WANT YOU BEING STANDOFFISH. VICTOR VELEZ SAYS ADVOCATES WANT TO GET YOU IN HERE BEFORE YOU END UP IN THERE, MEANING JAIL. WITH THE NEW BRANDING, THEY'RE TRYING TO DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM THE STREET-LEVEL IMAGE OF CIRV. IT IS A DISTINCTION NOT BEING MADE JUST YET ON THE HOTSPOT CORNERS THEY ENGAGE. IF ANYTHING, THIS INTERVIEW IS GOOD FOR, IT IS TOO CLEAR THAT UP. WE ARE NOT GIVING NAMES. WE ARE SAYING, WORK WITH US. THE ADVOCATES ARE NOW HOLDING EVENTS. HERE IS A FLYER ADVERTISING ONE THIS SATURDAY FROM 10:00 UNTIL 3:00 AT STAG'S BARBERSHOP IN AVONDALE, A NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THERE HAS BEEN AT LEAST A DOZEN HOMICIDES SO FAR THIS YEAR. THE TRUST LEVEL, ADVOCATES SAY, MUST BE REESTABLISHED. LIVE IN OVER THE RHINE, JOHN LONDON, WLWT NEWS 5. LISTEN TO THIS. THOSE ADVOCATES JOHN TALKED WITH TODAY SAY THEY ARE SEEING MORE